Mauro Reelected Democratic Town Chair
| Mar 13, 2024 1:11 pm |New Haven Democrats voted unanimously Tuesday evening to have Vincent Mauro Jr. continue serving as town chair into a second decade.
New Haven Democrats voted unanimously Tuesday evening to have Vincent Mauro Jr. continue serving as town chair into a second decade.
A handful of high-up local officials can apply to live outside of New Haven, as long as they can demonstrate a “critical need” or “extraordinary hardship” associated with living within city bounds after serving in their roles for at least a year.
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(Updated with official final results) A slate of insurgents raised issues — then ended up losing all their races Tuesday — in the city’s first competitive Democratic ward co-chair primaries in over a decade.
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| Mar 5, 2024 2:14 pm |How do you reconcile a moral crisis of loneliness with the economic toll of a stagnant minimum wage, and then reach “a more perfect union?”
Bishop William J. Barber II charted that path in a Dixwell sermon Tuesday that touched on biblical scripture, the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., the good deeds of his grandmother, the precariousness of swing-state voter turnout, and the fatal cruelty of poverty.
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One candidate campaigning for ward co-chair in the Hill tried a novel campaign strategy, at least for a New Haven Democrat: Insulting immigrants, then insulting a constituent’s house.
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“As a Palestinian, I learned early what it means to fear for the safety of my family on a daily basis,” said local law student Alaa Hajyahia.
A hundred protesters who had gathered outside City Hall in support of a ceasefire in the Gaza war fell silent as she spoke.
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| Feb 28, 2024 12:14 pm |How will local bids for geothermal and political power translate into a more empowered Newhallville community?
That question arose repeatedly at the latest gathering of the Newhallville Community Management Team.
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| Feb 27, 2024 11:17 am |Throughout my life I have fought for our city’s residents to be able to support their families and live dignified and fulfilling lives. Living in the Hill through economic struggle taught me that we win respect, dignity, and economic security by banding together, rolling up our sleeves, and doing the work required to address decades of racial segregation and policies that have benefited the powerful at the expense of the poor. We still have significant work to do, but building a movement that is focused on winning freedom for all New Haven residents has motivated my work as a union leader, an alder with 18 years of service, and a current co-chair for the Democratic Town Committee.
(Updated Feb. 29) In a park and then in a pencil museum, separate groups of politicos gathered in the Hill on the same day to rally voters to show up for one of the most obscure, historically least competitive elected positions in town: Democratic Party ward co-chair.
Troy Streater turned the key to the Lloyd Street apartment door, walked inside, and inspected the fresh gray paint job he’d recently commissioned so new tenants can move in.
Hours later, he arrived at the 180 Center to make his trademark hazelnut coffee for clients who have no apartment to sleep in.
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| Feb 7, 2024 10:50 am |Should a misstated birthday or a missing address disqualify candidates from running for office?
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A mayor’s vision of a booming city clashed with protesters’ vision of a world on fire — as pro-Palestinian activists held up the annual “State of the City” address in City Hall for half an hour on Monday night.
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It didn’t “concern” Mayor Justin Elicker that protesters shouted down his annual “State of the City” address Monday night, he said.
“I am a little bit concerned about the dialogue,” he said. “I don’t think it was the most productive way to have a conversation. I also understand the frustration.”
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| Feb 5, 2024 8:09 pm |Following is the prepared text for the annual “State of the City” address Mayor Justin Elicker delivered Monday evening at City Hall.
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| Feb 2, 2024 3:35 pm |As the nation already focuses on the November 2024 presidential races, New Haveners started campaigning for March 2024 elections for the most local of offices: party ward co-chair.
A slate of political challengers is seeking a little-noticed office as a way to pry open the door of democracy in New Haven.
At least that’s how organizers of the “New Haven Agenda” put it.
“If you had to either quit or work with Donald Trump as president, what would you do?”
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal faced that question and others about his role in the future of American democracy — not at a press conference, or on the Senate floor, but in Lauren Bitterman’s fifth-grade classroom at Mauro-Sheridan school.
It looks like Democrats will have primary challengers for Democratic Town Committee co-chair elections come March.
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| Jan 17, 2024 11:17 am |Child tax credit advocates are split on a pending Congressional deal to lift some families out of poverty.
Gov. Ned Lamont was beginning to tout Connecticut’s economy to a banquet hall of New Haven business leaders Wednesday morning when a dozen protesters swept into the room to protest the war in Gaza.
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Stephanie Thomas said she was “as shocked as everybody else” when she saw a video of a Bridgeport campaign worker allegedly hauling stacks of harvested absentee ballots into a drop box.
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| Jan 5, 2024 12:14 pm |More people “bowl alone” now. But at least in New Haven they also plant community gardens and organize snow-shoveling brigades.
Epping, N.H. — I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I really like Chris Christie. Or at least I did when I caught up with him here on the trail of the first-in-the-nation Republican presidential primary.
A Democrat, a second Democrat, a third Democrat, then dozens more Democrats all at once took oaths of office Monday to inaugurate the seventh straight two-year cycle of one-party government in New Haven.
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| Jan 1, 2024 5:46 pm |Rabbi Eric Woodward and Imam Omer Bajwa didn’t compare notes before giving back-to-back invocations at Monday’s mayoral inauguration. They didn’t need to — they knew what to say. And they had similar messages to impart.
Continue reading ‘At Inauguration, Imam & Rabbi Pray For Justice’